Nicolas Anelka left Bolton to affix Chelsea in a £15million deal on today in 2008.
The striker turned Avram Grant’s first seize at Stamford Bridge and signed a three-and-a-half-year contract.
He had spent two years at Bolton and had already scored 11 objectives in 22 video games that season earlier than Chelsea turned the eighth membership of his profession.
“I need to inform the Chelsea followers that I see this as an incredible alternative and an honour and I cannot disappoint them,” Anelka instructed the Chelsea web site.
Nicolas Anelka scored 59 occasions for Chelsea (Anthony Devlin/PA)
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“Chelsea is the workforce I actually needed to affix and I hope this would be the final membership that I play for.
“I’m actually trying ahead to working with Avram (Grant) and Chelsea’s model of soccer actually fits my sport.”
Anelka scored 59 objectives in 185 video games for Chelsea and gained the Premier League and two FA Cups in addition to the Golden Boot in 2008-09.
However he additionally missed the decisive penalty in Chelsea’s Champions League last shoot-out defeat to Manchester United in 2008.
Chelsea is the workforce I actually needed to affix and I hope this would be the final membership that I play for
Nicolas Anelka
Anelka handed in a switch request in December 2011 whereas Andre Villas-Boas was in cost.
He left for an 18-month spell at Shanghai Shenhua and likewise had a mortgage keep at Juventus.
Anelka returned to England with West Brom in 2013 however his time at Albion led to controversy after he was sacked by the Baggies a yr later.
Anelka was banned for 5 video games and fined £80,000 by the Soccer Affiliation for making a quenelle signal after scoring in opposition to West Ham in December 2013. Anelka denied his use of the signal was anti-Semitic.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
